The report also states that Das gave the BJP “favourable treatment on election-related issues”. “In April of last year, days before voting began in India’s general election, Facebook announced it had taken down inauthentic pages tied to Pakistan’s military and the Congress party, the BJP’s main rival party. But it didn’t disclose it also removed pages with false news tied to the BJP, because Ms. Das intervened,” former employees of Facebook told The Wall Street Journal.
The Congress accused Facebook of bias and alignment with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), with Rahul Gandhi sharing the WSJ article on Sunday.
On Monday, Congress’ Data Analytics chief Praveen Chakravarty said that Facebook India’s alignment is not just with one person, but there are many in the leadership team with a close working relationship with people in the saffron party. He also gave ‘various instances’ of the social media website’s interference in the Indian elections.